(WHEATLEY PHILLIS) RENRO G HERBERT Life and Works of Phillis

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(WHEATLEY, PHILLIS.) RENRO, G. HERBERT. Life and Works of Phillis Wheatley. With a Sketch of the Life of Mr. Renfro by Leila Amos Pendleton. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, later gilt-stamped black leather-grained cloth, light damp-staining and wrinkling to the terminal text leaf. Washington, D.C.: [for the author], 1916

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first edition. A scarce bio-bibliography which prints, for the first time, the correspondence between Phillis Wheatley and Obour Tanner, another African-American. A copy of a letter from Wheatley to Obour Tanner was sold by Swann in 2005.